The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR WIND - -- b - `DSGR, TUESDAY. —To ---. day her Majesty did not ride out, L'dut walked for some time on the Slopes, and visited Adelaide ge• The Q ueen was attended by most of the Ladies and entlemen of the Court. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta paid her Majesty Highness'sl!:disit his afternoon, and took leave, previous to her Royal Com • departure for Brighton. Lady Mary Pelham ac panied her Royal Hi hness. hon Mo. and. Mrs. Harcourt, of St. Leonard's, will have the The ur of dini ng w i th her Majesty this evening. re have been no arrivals or departures at the Castle *ince yesterday. , The D uc h ess of Kent returned to Windsor Castle on Mon nay. ev ening fro m K ew. Account s eeounts were received in town yesterday morning from cri v tlill B th inst., f or N aples. er Majesty t h e Queen Dowager. Her Majesty left Gibraltar F c unt Ber es f or d transacted business yesterday at the °rei gn O u ffice. n 1 :retie Belgian Minister transa c t e d b us i ness yester d ay a t th e D. 12 e e of the S ecretary of State for Foreign Affairs. for spatches were forwarded yest erdayfrom Downing-street yLord Melbourne at Windsor. th e Fo r Howa r d d e Walden transacted business yesterday at c°nreign Dep artment. I'd Palmerston transacted business yesterday at the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's office. t ril:he Chancellor of the Exchequer transacted business yes -13 • ue A ustrraidaen. ° ,7, 4 ,Y at Lord Melbourne's office. Board of Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign`ue American Minister transacted business yesterday at the uepartment. t„,`"e Russian, Turkish, Prussian, and Austrian Ambassadors lsaeted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. b o be Agent for Gibraltar transacted business yesterday in wlling-street reiTAgnildeopmuteaet!on from th e City a tt en d e d yes t er d ay at t h e F o yestere Agent for the Cape of Good Hope transacted business day at the Colonial Office. t ,espatches, dated the 15th of October. were received yes 4t;"Y at the Colonial Department from Nlajor-General Sir I.7.sander Woodford, the Governor of Gibraltar. _4"espatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign De- Ptterrtrnent for the Charges d'Affaires, resident at the Courts of at t a l ia and St. Peterburgb. EesPatches, dated the 29th of May, were received yesterday itne of I.Jd lia Board f rom L or d A uc kl an d , t h e G overnor . Gene- The E ar l an d Countess of Wilton left Grosvenor squar e on Monday for Walmer Castle, on a visit to the Duke 4 °f Wellingt on . T he No b le E ar l an d C ountess will not re 'urn until the close of the week. 'aring Lord an d L a d y A s hb urton an d t h e Hon. Misses sad are on their way to Nice. Mr. H ump h rey St. John the last Hon. Mr s . Mildmay lef t B er k e l ey - square on Saturday for Paris, on their way to the same place. The D owager L a d y Gl ynne and the Misses Glynne have arrived at Nice. f or Lord S u M ffield ray left the Cl aren d on Hotel yesterday, Melton owb. Lord Dunsany left town last week with his family, to pass the winter in the South of France. Lord Petre and the Hon. Miss Petre have returned to their seat, Thorndon Hall, from a brief sojourn at Brighton. " - Essex .Herald. Sir Francis Chantrey has been on a visit at Walmer preparat ory prof ess i ona ll y, to take a sketch of the Noble Duke, rreparat ory to modelling for the City statue. .Sir J o h n J ohnstone, Bart., and his Lady, will leave igheir Sat, H ac k ness Hall, near Scarborough, in a few days, _ ilt a ce visit to the A rc hbi shop of York, at the Archiepiscopal . f ron t ;°,..rd . Lyttleton g oes t o H ag l ey P ar k i n a few days Yvindsor C ast l e. in Lord Surr Beresf or d h as purchased Betchworth Castle th ere. eY, from Mr. Hope, and is making great improvements visc ount Hood i s pass i ng t h e season at Whi t l ey Abb ey' near Coventry. li e il o in ee Loui s N apo l eon B onaparte pa id a visit toua, at Highness th e P r i nce o f Capua, yesterday afternoon Tharts Hotel. fes en e Marquis o f H ert f or d i s at N ap l es i n ver y indif _ T t l h elled gout ealth. His Lordship has suffered much in consequence C aatir° n e ,, Marquis of H un tly i s gone to Aberboyne Co iln Huutingdonshire. 4 4 _ et Batthyany, who has been officiating at arrived ;014 coronation of the Emperor of Austria at Milan, arri Th vart's Hotel last evening, from Italy. thp e ,buke and Duchess of Beaufort, accompanied have L ", a rqUis of Worcester and Lady Augusta Somerset, bill 'wed at Ligne, from Venice. The Ladies Somerset Aanreeturn to Arlington -street to-morrow, from Mr. and Lady Curling Smith's seat, Wentworth House, Berks. 1:1 b : Marq u i s o f B r i sto l h as arr i ve d i n P ar i s, f rom ca _ p :i!ber e the Noble Marquis will sojourn until the latter Tuber. Secretary to the Board of Control, Mr. Gor lioustariired in Dover -street yesterday, from his seat, Kemble e , near Cirencester. Lo rd ti ll and L ady S outhampton intend to make a con )4 ; ental tour for twleve months. the E ar l an d C ountess of Sefton and the Ladies o.to 'YnCaux have left town for Stowe Park. The Noble Earl better health than when he left town for Cheltenham. e find by the Paris papers that Louis Philippe b1 1 1 :e hi s f am il y attended the Itali an O pera on Saturday night, .'ear th e L uc i a di Lammermoor sung b y R u bi n i, Tam brirlis an d P ers i an i , un d er t h e d i rection of the composer e e li zetti, wh o i s now at P ar i s prepar i ng a grand opera for the dernie Royale. N ee unt Po z z o di B orgo en t er t a i ne d t h e R uss i an p it " 4 ' Wiamen s ki, P r i nce S outzo , C ount Pil asc h, an d a se l ect I '4' at dinne r last evening, at Ashburnham House. Th e Earl and Countess of Chesterfield entertained or d , ov, n . 'ouaco,)nald and a select party at dinner, on Wednesday br er in g,. His Lordship and visitants afterwards went to iVane Theatre to see the spectacle of Charlemagne. Earl and Countess of Erroll, and the Ladies - ala e ; e ,. daily expected at their apartments in St. James's it Et a -- ; Znm a visit to Lord and Lady . Frederick Fitzclarence, ts33, llte e b .4 e Puse, Northumberland. His Lordship's . rooms in the tt in fi g too small to accommodate his family, he will re ) _ o ge, rivvo a few hours only, and then proceed to Pembroke dini‘Richmond Park. tr ,„eto a a - Y. ill aryborough returned to town last evening, j!!!)se, 7 ,: e si _r t‘o_the. Earl and Countess . of Clarendon, at the f e ltroi n ,„,, o 7 yyatford, who have arrived at their seat from al' v ,day;;•" 6 13 - Lord Maryborough left for Deal Castle a to e e ine, to make the necessary arrangements to reside astl e . hate e ha ar s t a May ha ppy to state th a t the accounts from Cahir Yo sit o.a,innounce Lady Gl enga ll t o b e muc h better, and this tTh e o rnger. —Li mer i c k Ch ron i c l e o f S atur d a y. 4hd bail Hers of the Wilts yeomanry cavalry gave a Ail ea. d supper on F ri d ay even i ng , a t th e Town Hall, sl ew e l oory, ti h tl e famili es o f t h e M arqu i s an d M arc hi on ess of te ed a nd u wager . Countess of Pembroke, Marquis of Lens -4 wi th " L 'r. Est court , M.P., were present . Weippert at- The i t . h is full b an d. to 'ght Hon. Sir Henry Ellis, who is spoken of nitil; obtai n the lucrative appointment of Governor t il h d was so is half-brother to the Earl of Buckinghamshire, p a Ze ia tirne since sent on a special mission to the At tl 4 l l t. 8 1 ler y. 'r H enryn Chamberlain, Bart., of the Royal 100, in the h as been appointed pro tent to the command at Cey t;r4t as of the late Col. Clement. lo ° b 'tql L."lt.s.—W e have been informed by Sir t . Z'aih ra -e s , that in consequence of the opening of the Pres- Itia t - t1 of k the London mail will arrive here on and after ti e 4 for °vember, at nineteen minutes past four a.m. ; and fro in t n thi; north will be despatched at five a.m. .1n addi- Iler s t , be long -talked of measure of a morning mail . ‘vol e - h 4 bous;; N :s now to be carried into effect, which will arrive % se n ew en o'clock in the evening ; and the North . . ma f il, le ave s tarts at four o'clock in the afternoon, will . in u- Edi46 areh ~i ' nhorgh about eight o'clock in the evening.— thewe hay ant. ! t ikirc e , u nquestionable authority for stating that lert t D ale h ave decided, with the consent of the Turkish Nand ou isi nt i;„ ll Pn sending to Constantinople immediately a tlf ah: tlf of enterprising naval officers to take the com t'Ps essel s of the Turkish fleet. The precise number A te nirlk comm an d e d is not stated.—Correspondent of Rt i non aPer•—[One of the best things they can do.] th e toh,'llent , r umours of the day is one of the intendedrol_ nt Sir Joh n C am H o bhouse from the Board of 2116r nin H e ra ld .Zg Itt Atz, tTeL H URRICANE AT ILFRACOMBE, OCT. )t 1 1 , 12 p'ettl -o rrespondent.)—This morning, at about half fs Low dr e a dk , a gale sprun g up from the N. W., and at lA. M. It t : eiti ttl her rnoofrUPY. The brig Harmonie, from Zette, _brok a e t he,g warp %.,ngs in the harbour, but is now secured by . vv. eta ' wo herring boats are out, with seven men , reNoutshanticipated. Another which was out escaped into bi e wlY b e i l , ft safe harbour, about two miles to the eastward. Ai nfi nwn ( l ow " wall, at the back of Mr. Samuel Clark's house, at lq"'sbl own ' Chimney at Mr. James Camp's ; and several s,s te ". Di c k e tit, and the roof of the house nearly uncovered, inh, s fro re o _ n s°n's, Northfield. The streets are covered with 11141/4-tlita4ts adjoining houses. Almost the whole of the ld rY, and ere roused from their bes. I send this off in a hare of the You must be aware that I Cannot obtain full parti 1144eye d amage, the mail leaving too soon to obtain them. ‘ll ' o .'e ffe ;- , arc e l y any one can tell the amount of damage we 2 k.u e d is for one, cannot. The gale abated a trifle but it still continues very heavy. itti ett 'Lerd ay fo 'ki s rd B ran renoon, while a young man named 1 1 . es or some eh was engaged in erecting a cooler on . the pre -47 b y sow"' Messrs. Moirs, distillers, at Bromley, Middlesex, 1 4 1:'nc e n e e means or other lost his balance, and fell from a 11'en uss . sixty feet to the ground. The poor fellow was .. th e 4' 011 4 1, a stat e of insensibility, and carried on a shutter fuu a n i!! hi s vir'r'ino Hospital, when on examination it was aboutod , 4: , k ay , e eit ie . g was fractured in a shocking manner s 'a'ns in ween the foot and the knee. He had also rt.- sianla i4 ta i t _ e rt s i zel re e c o a n r t i u o s u io a n s s ta o ten. his head, and at present re- CUSTOM-HOUSE ABUSES TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SUN. SIR,—In your paper of the 16th instant yeu called the at tention of your readers to a statement which I made before the Lord Mayor, relative to certain charges made by Messrs. Jackson and Knill, the wharfingers at London Bridge Wharf, on passengers' luggage arriving from Boulogne and Calais. My complaint was, that after my luggage was passed by the examining officer on duty a charge of sixpence was made on each package, at the instance of the above wharfingers, and on my refusing to pay it my goods were detained in conse quence. It will be recollected that the Lord Mayor de nounced the demand as a gross imposition, and advised me to apply to the Commissioners of Customs on the subject. Fol lowing the suggestion, .1 wrote to the Board and the public will learn, with surprise, that it disclaimed all knowledge on the point, the Commissioners having returned the following answer " Custom-house, 19th Oct., 1838. " Sxa,—The Board of Customs having had before them your representation, dated 16th inst., with respect to a charge of sixpence per package for wharfage, made by Messrs. Jack son and Knill, upon five packages, containing luggage, &c., landed by you from Boulogne, I have it in command to ac quaint you that as the charge does not relate to this depart ment the Board cannot interfere. "lam, Sir, your most obedient servant, " Henry Flower, Esq." "J. KER." Determined, if possible, to learn by whose authority the little poke-hole on London Bridge Wharf had been converted into a quasi Custom-house, and tolls allowed to be levied for the profit of private individuals, I wrote the full particulars to the Lords of the Treasury for information, and to which the subjoined reply was sent : " Treasury Chambers, 24th Oct., 1838. _ _ _ " SIR,—.I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your appli cation, dated 20th instant. " The subject will receive proper attention, and such further communication be made to you, as may appear to be necessary, " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "Mr. H Flower." "A. G. SPEARNIAN." My object in troubling you with this correspondence is to awaken the attention of the public interested in this matter. If it likes to be fleeced, well and good; if it is disinclined, let it resist the payment. Example is catching ; if the demand grows into a precedent on this side the water it will pretty soon be followed by our neighbours on the other side, who are not at all backward in having an enlightened self-interest for themselves. I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your most obedient servant, Compton-place, Islington, HENRY FLOWER. 30th Oct., 1838. CORN-LAW FALLACIES, WITH THE ANSWERS. (Continued from The Sun of Monday.) IBl.—To me it appears most extraordinary, that the pre sent moment should have been seized on by the Corn-law abolitionists to moot the question. If ever there was a time more unfavourable than another to the arguments of those who would do away with Corn-laws, the present is precisely that.—Letter of Mr. John Ellman, in Bell's Weekly Mes senger, Oct. 14, 1838. ANSWER.—Adversaries do not always agree as to the proper time. What is one man's meat, is another man's poison. But let us see. 182.—We have had lately 1,200,000 quarters of foreign wheat released duty free (for really the Is. per quarter which it paid cannot be called a duty), and yet the markets have risen since.—ld. A.—That proves that there is not yet enough for the year's supply ; or at all events, for a plentiful one. Being liable, then, to encounter such wants, see what provision we have made for getting them supplied. 183. —For a long time it has been evident that we should require the aid of foreign wheat —ld. A.--Who then, in their senses, would have proceeded to cut off the chances of a foreign growth to supply ? 184.—Prices had risen considerably—the North of Europe has been ransacked for every bushel they could spare, and what have we had brought in ?—not a million of quarters in addition to that in warehouse in the country—or less than one month's consumption.—ld. A.—So because none is to be got when we have done all we could to hinder its being grown, it is to be concluded that there is no use in anything but making up our minds to do constantly without. 185. In a very able pamphlet, written by Mr. Jacob (no mean authority even in the eyes of our political economists), in the year 1814, the present Comptroller of Corn Returns, says :—‘, The average price of wheat in 1800 and 1801 was EIGHTEEN shillings a bushel—at one period, March, 1801, it was as high as TWENTY-TWO shillings the bushel—and yet the whole quantity brought into this country during these two years amounted but to 2,689,286 quarters of wheat ; which is to our present consumption only six weeks' supply." This, it must be remembered, was written in 1814, since which our population has increased many millions, without any corre sponding increase in cultivation. Indeed, taking England and Wales only, I doubt if more wheat is grown now than at that period. Scotland and Ireland produce more wheat, but not more than sufficient to meet our increasing population.—ld. A.—How should it ? If it was, who would pay for it ? Nobody can find out, that corn will not be grown un less there is somebody to pay for it, and that men cannot live without corn to eat. These make the two termini, which might be supposed invisible to the naked eye. 186.—1 t appears to me that when the upholders of Corn laws permit themselves to argue the question as they would do that of the necessity of protection for the manufacture of any particular article, or, what is more in point, as the growers of beet-root in France would be supposed to do as against the introduction of foreign sugar, they descend from the high ground on which we stand, and . at once open the gates half way to our assailants. Bread i s a necessary oflffe ; it must be had at whatever price. Id. A.—Not if it cannot be got. Mr. Ellman is one of those who never knew the want of bread. But will he tell the man who just gets bread enough for his family by work ing sixteen hours a-day, that if bread doubles in price he must gec it because it is a necessary of life ? The wretch under Mr. Ellman's regimen will find, that it is not neces sary he should live. 187.—8 y much the greater part of our population would p urc hase it, even were it double its present price. —ld. A.—The enormous blunder is in thinking that men purchase it when it is not there to be had. If bread is dearer, it is only because there is less of it ; and the author goes on conceiting that " by much the greater part of our population" contrive to get as much as they did before. 188.—It is therefore clear that the only plan of securing a supply of bread to the lower classes is by securing an abundance ; and how can that be done unless by encouragement of the cul tivation of the United Kingdom ?—ld. A.—How is an abundance secured of claret or Port wine ? By letting it be understood by the foreign growers that they may look to us for a market. To say there was no hope for wine-drinkers but from growing grapes it home in hothouses, would be just as good argument as the other. 189.—Suppose our average crop to be equal to our con sumption—and no one calls it more—should we be one-fourth below an average, where can we make up the deficiency ? No where. —ld. A.—Our average supply will always be equal to our consumption, by the token that if it is not, the consumers will cease to live. This is what the public cannot be in duced to comprehend. And suppose it should happen under the be-praised system, that there was a deficiency of one-fourth—and why should not there ? We have nothing to do but lie down and die. 190.—Does not this prove, beyond all doubt, that to our own soil, and our own soil only, must we look for our supply of the first necessary of life ?—ld. A.—Not in the remotest conceivable degree. It does not advance one step towards likelihood or probability, that anything can make the premises and the consequence ad here together. Try it upon home-grown claret. 191.—Only let our own cultivation of the soil be protected from a ruinous foreign competition, when corn is at a mode rate price here ; and with the great improvements in agricul ture which appear likely to take place, taken up as the subject has been by the highest noblemen in the kingdom, wisely throwing aside all party feeling, I have no doubt that, by the blessing of Providence, we shall be able to supply the inha bitants of the kingdom at a more moderate and steady price than the whole world would, were our Corn-laws abolished to- morrow. —ld. _ A.—ln other words, pav an unreasonable price for corn when it is plentiful, and then you will always have enough when it is scarce. How strange that men have not made the grand discovery in other quarters ! 192.—1 will not tire your readers by noticing the idea, that a fixed duty of 10s. a quarter. would at all times be a suffi cient protection to our own agriculture (any more than I would Mr. Hume's reported assertion, that it would be better for us if we did not grow a bushel of wheat), further than by say ing that it has been proved by merchants of the highest re spectablility before Committees of Parliament, that there is no price, however low, that would secure us against foreign importation, if we did not want it—as there is no price, how ever high, which will secure us sufficient foreign importa tion to make up any great deficiency here, when we really do want it.—ld. A.—A fixed duty is a fixed evil. No man has a right to rob us in our bread by a fixed scale any more than a moveable one. Mr. Hume probably meant, that it would be better we' grew no wheat here, with liberty to get it where we could, than grow it here, and be prevented from getting it where we might ; which is as true as it is of claret. We always want corn, when we can get it cheaper ; and we should be just as certain to go without Port wine when we wanted it, if we took the same insane mode of hindering its being grown for us. (TO BE CONTINUED.) - - His Exmli enc y Count Woronzow, Governor-Gene ral of Ne w Russia, and suite, have arrived at the Green Park Hotel, Piccadilly, from Wilton House, near Salisbury, the seat of his sister, the Dowager Countess of Pembroke. ENGLA ITSSIA Unhappily, the Euxine and its shores afford a proof that Russia has sagacity enough to discern when perseverance in her objects may be safe, and detet mination to pursue them with undeviating pertinacity, though fortunately not always with success. The repeated and extensive armaments, the Impe rial Ukases, and the Imperial visits, indicate sufficiently the high value which the Government of St. Petershurgh continue to attach to the subjugation of the Caucasian tribes. Yet the brave Circassians still hold out; and the whitening bones of the Russian soldiers, and the stranded wrecks of their navy, attest both the desperate character of the Circassian resistance, and the inefficacy of a Russian blockade. Yet the world has heard that the British flag has been out raged by the seizure of not less than three British merchant vessels by Russian ships of war ; one of these, for the alleged breach of sanatory and custom-house regulations, on a shore sshere no right of establishing such on the part of Russia ex ists, has been condemned as a seizure, almost without inquiry, certainly without proof ; while British merchants have found themselves prohibited from trading with a free people, desi rous of such commercial intercourse, by an interminable block ade, which has never been recognised by our authorities, and which Russia has no right to impose. And now the iniquitous and avowedly exterminating war against this free people is made a pretext for military preparations on a gigantic scale, which may with ease, and probably will, be applied to purposes subversive of the British interests in Central Asia. But it is in quarters further removed from public obser vation that the progress of Russia has been most rapid and alarming, because more securely carried on. Few and in different are the regards bestowed by most European States men on the countries eastward of the Caspian, or even on the more known and less savage realms of Persia ; yet it is there, notwithstanding, that the danger to British interests is greatest and most imminent. Not four years since the aid of Eng land, in money and in countenance, placed the present Shah of Persia on his throne. Accompanied by the Envoy of that power, with the detachment of British officers, and by the Ambassador of Russia, who gave no assistance beyond the assent implied by his presence—for none other, indeed, wa s required on the part of his master—the young Monarch made his bloodless progress from Tabreez to the capital, where he was seated in peace upon the throne of his grandfather_ and great and unbounded were the professions of his gratitude. The Russian boundary was then the Arras, and the influence of Russia was decidedly inferior to that of England in the councils of the Shah. Since then we have seen that Mo narch, who thus owed his crown to England, in defiance of the councils and remonstrances of the British Ministe r , but listeni ng t o th e vo i ce o f c ncouragement from th e Am bassador of Russia, exhausting the resources and forestalling the revenues of his still unsettled country, in support of a war of aggression against the vital interests of England. We have seen the English Minister insulted, his demands for redress unheeded, forced to retire before the prevail ing influence of the Russian Envoy from the Court of the Shah, where heretofore he had been paramount, and that Monarch avowedly abandoning himself to the guidance of the latter—acting in all respects by his advice—making treaties under his guarantee, and receiving in return promises of the most substantial aid, in prosecuting his designs against the very points and people which it is our interest and object to protect. We have seen the Chiefs of Affghanistan, who but a short while since coveted and solicited our alliance as their best safeguard, disappointed in their hopes of assistance from Eng land against either Sikhs or Persians, dismissing the empty handed English agents, and admitting those of Russia, who lavish the promises of aid and protection which England with holds; and entering into treaties with the Persian Monarch, under guarantee of the Russian agent ; probably, too, with the Emperor himself, against their own brethren of H erat. We hear of the Russian Envoy intimating the intention of the Emperor his master to send an army of 10,000 Rus sians to subjugate the rulers of Khivah and Bockhara, and that done, to fix with Persia the limits of their eastern frontiers. In short, we see Russian influence, instead of being limited as formerly to the line of Arras, prevailing now, not at Herat alone, but at Caubul—nay, even to the banks of the Indus. Nor is the rapidity of this progress less alarming and as tounding than its unerring uncertainty. Sixty-four years, that is, from 1772 till 1835-6, were required to advance the southern frontier of the Czars a distance of 700 miles namely, from the line of posts established by Peter the Great, between the Don and the Volga to the Arras; within these two last years the Emperor Nicholas _has advanced his influence, if not his troops, from the Arras to Caubul, a stride of more than 2,000 miles. It signifies little to object that the Russian troops are not yet even at Herat : the time may not be ripe for the last decided step of military occupation ; but it is fast approaching, and all is pre pared to take advantage of the proper moment; and, if Eng land remains as indifferent to the present and future, as she has been to the past, that consummation will be speedily wit nessed. The English mission and detachment once got rid of, a popular tumult, the revolt of a province or a chief, events which the ingenuity of a Russian agent can at any time readily bring about, may form a pretext for introducing a force that shall hold the north in awe, and whose advanced posts may be at Herat, or yet further east; for, the moral courage and in dt pence of the Shah once thoroughly subdued by a sense of his own helplessness, no obstacle whatever will exist to the military occupation of the country, and its resources will am ply maintain the requisite troops which have of late been mus tering to the north of the Caucasus. Persia once prostrated, and Affghanistan overawed , or pro• tected, who will again venture to smile or to sneer at the once supposed impracticability of a Russian invasion of India? With proofs before the Indian world so convincing of the superior power of Russia to that of England, in the rapid the former in despite of the latter, towards her Indian frontier, what is to become of that talisman of opinion which has so long sustained our Asiatic empire, or of the revenues and re sources we derive from it? Will Runjeet Sing then continue our faithful ally,• h approach of with the promises of Russia in his ear, and question ag the fear of her bayonets before his eyes ? thi Is it asked what has brought on this alarming condition of t i l s i i s easilyrapid 01l d decayof simply Britishar answered—it te influence red l.t is and the irpower?reso T h e , ,or the false economy, of English p p a a w r e a r ly t seadadtheenavmigoounrredofohf her r pe c ac o e n —p the timidity, po li c y and n a i n e d asures, which, losing sight of the national best interests peace —peace at any rate— havencils and induced Government a rather to concede •and , conciliate, than to stand firm and resent the smallest interests; aggression on her which has stripped herand foreign Envoys of power . means, when these should rather have been increased, to match the agents of a Power money, or that never spares , scruples at measures which are to further her ultimate end-. How could ti . e Shah of Persia, or the Chiefs of Affghan istan, resist the promises, or brave the threats of Russia, which experience had proved to be no empty words, in order to cline. to England, th Envoys of which could neither pro mise efficient protection, nor threaten with effectual punis h * went? But, again, it may be asked, " Is the case, then, desperate? is the game so totally lost as to preclude hope ?" God forbid. The statement of facts and anticipations here set forth are meant to rouse, not to depress. The facts, indeed, are cer (From an interesting Pamphlet,Pro gr ess P re - entitled " and taint the condition of affairs in those countries is exactly sent Position of Russia in the East," published by M urray.) stated nor is it particularly cheering to re fl ect t h at t h e mis- To whatever quarter we look, whether in E urope or in chief , is . entirely owing to our own supinen ess or timidity—that Asia, the influence and power of Russia is s een upon the in. a fitting support of our agents, and duly redeemi ng th e p l e d ges they felt it expedient to give, and an earlier an d more efficient crease. 111-fated Poland points to the atrocious Uk ases wh i ch, constantly emanating from St. Petersburgh, send h er sons to demonstration of resolution in the proper qua r t ers , wou ld have Siberia, or to die o saved the whole loss. But the remedy is f or t unate l y st ill , n the banks of the Kuban--her daughters even at the eleventh hour, in our hands ; firmn ess an d d ec i s i on to the Russian camp ; transplant whole famili es f rom Poland will yet retrieve the game. The attitude assumed in Persia to Russia for the purposes of population ; give the eststcs of by Russia, or at least by her agent, is unquestionably hostile her former nobles to the instruments of Russian tyranny, and but, with the art which governs all her policy, a loop-hole has are gradually blotting her out from even the memory of Eu rope.A British representative is exclud e d f rom t h e little Envoy; and if need be, she will do so. Already, if report state of Cracow, the existence and fre e d om o f w hi c h , though guaranteed by the great European Power s , i s a b out to be ex- deserves credit, she has taken the first precautiona r y s t ep : h er ' tinguished, while itself is to be abso r b e d i n t o t h e mass of the Ambassador at the Shahs Court has been remove d , i t is said,and is to be replaced by another, well known in Egypti an Russian dominions. The veteran pil o t o f th e A ustr i an mo- Politics. narchy, divided between his fears of Lib era li sm and of the 1 3 encroaChing spirit of his formidable north ern ne i g hb our, looks Should England assume a tone inconveniently high, this on, irresolute and inactive, hoping that the blow may not fall step can at once be appealed to, as a proof of her conciliatory in his day—that the status quo may last hi s ti me . dispositions and innocence of intention. If not, the form e r The great moral change which has b een gra d ually but efficient e instrument at that of the Shah, while the ex-Ambas ag agent at the Court of Mahommed Ali will not be a less surely wrought in Turkey by the operati on o f R uss i an agents, sador, who volunteered to lead a regiment to the attack of but those who possess the b u st mean s o f j u d g i ng, k now well may be less obvious and palpable than it i s rea l an d essential ; Herat, will make an admirable commander to replace, with other Russian officers, the British detachment discarded how tightly the bonds of her fatal p ro t ec t or have within that time been drawn through Russian influence—perhaps his Excellency may b e --how absolutely every a c t o f t h e Sultan's sent toorganize the troops of Dost Mahommed Khan at Caubul. Government, both foreign and domesti c , i s contro ll ed by the erg Minister of Russia, and how the co n fid ence once f e l t in former friends and allies has b e en l o st, an d th e i r counse l s and repre- But is Russia yet in circumstances to brave and to wage a war with England ? That is the question. We thi n k not , sentations remain almost disregarded. E urope h as seen his Highness compelled to the suicid a l ac t o f sever i ng the last even were she to have England single-handed for her antago his ow n fir- nist. The proof of this may be found in the conduct o f R uss i a link of connection that remained b e t ween hi s person and the principalities of Wallachia an d Nl o ld av i a — herself. The day is gone by when doubts might ha ve b een last semblance of suzerainete he p ossesse d over t h ese former to annihil a t e the entertained of her 'projects of conquest and territorial aggran disement; every assertion she has made of moderatio n an d bound hand and foot into the arms of R uss i a , b y provinces of the Turkish empire; and by d e li vering them self-denial has been belied by her acts. But she kn ows w h en , maun, to give the coup dc grace to the nascent liberties of where, and how to make her approaches, and carefully avoids all attempts at encroachment, whether political or territori a l, these States, who earnestly longed to enter the f am il y o f E uro. pear nations as free and independent members. It:h as w i tnessed where there is d anger o f com i n g t o o f u lly un d er th e pu bli c she has been ' ll , lavish of concilia. eye. To England esp . ecia y the agent of Russia dissolving, by an act of coercion, the re. t presentative assemblies which his own Goverment (the C our ory assurances an d p ac ifi c d ec l ara t ions : were s h e prepare d Protectrice !) had but a few years ago mad e a p ara d e o f b e- for a rupt ure , wou ld t hi s b e t h e case ? W ou ld s h e, b ut for stowing on these principalities—violati ng an d t ram pli ng on t h e dread of consequ ences , so l one , d e f er se i z i ng on t h e pr i zes Reglement Oryanique, or code of la ws , w hi c h h a d b een f rame d which otherwise are w ithi n h er grasp, an d w hi c h have been the object of h er so li c it u d e f or years ? N o : E ngland may be for them on the same occasion —th rea t en i ng t h e stur d y oppo- rents of these outrages with the vengeance o f t h e E mperor— assured that Rus s i a d rea d s h er ; b ut presum i ng on the obvious reluctance of th e E ng li s h nat i on to r i s k a d i sturbance of the lording it despotically over b o th P r i nces an d N o b les, and con- v peace of Europe, an d a d m i ra bl y s kill e d i n j udging bow far she voting the former, together with th e execut i ve o f b ot h S tates, into base and passive instruments of R uss i an purposes. The may press upon that reluct ance , s h e d oes and will continue to troops, meanwhile assembled in Bessarabia, are rea dy t o pour advance, step by step, un til pat i ence i s worn out, and ind ece ig d na in, at the first fitting moment, and to turn both principalities tion is roused. Then, an d not t ill then, and she will continue sos t o d o w hil e pressewill Russia r d, until driven to ae; into that which they already are in fact, avowed provinces o f wch jce an Russia—even while raising their dying voice in vain appeals warrant her hi in maiustintainind the common vo i ce o f Europe may warrant her in maintaining. to the justice and sympathy of civilized and Christian Europe. In the concluding words of the pamphlet, " The integrity Less obvious, but not less certain, are the intrigues by which and independence of Persia is necessary to the security of India dissension has been sown and maintained in the Sultan's do- and of Europe ; and any attempt to subvert the one is a blow minions, his revenues diminished, and his resources crippled struck at the other—an unequivocal act of hostility to Eny by treachery and rebellion. Nothing can be more grateful to land." This act has now been perpetrated, and that point Russia than to witness the growth of Mahommed Ali's power, in the progress of Russia, when resistance to her dangerous which if once more directed against his master would give the ambition becomes imperative, has surely been rea c h e d. Th e signal for a second, and prob a bly a more permanent occupation moment for firmness in language and decision in act bas ar- rived; and let it no t be f or g o tten that a negl ec t o f suc h junc of the Bosphorus by a Rus s i an fl eet, an d o f A natolia, or part of it, by Russian troops. N or cou ld a more unwelcome mea- tures—a constant sacrifice of opportunities, in dealing with a sure to Russia have been p er p etrate d , t h an the ratification by powerful and encroaching adversary—must at length pl ace us the Sultan of a commercial t rea ty w i t h E ng l and and France; in a position where to struggle may be vain, and we may a treaty which, if acted on, m us t, b y ann ihil at i ng monopolies, awake from our lethargy too late for safety. strike at the root of the power o f th e Vi ceroy of Egypt, as at present administered. The fact of this treaty baying been carried through the councils of his Highness, in spite of Rus sian opposition and intrigue, significantly demonstrates how perfectly sensible the Government of St. Petersburgh is of its inability to oppose with effect the power of Great Britain when directed with energy to the attainment of a just and equitable object. STATE OF IRELAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, OCT. 29. " In a word, we ought to act in party with all the moderation which does not absolutely enervate that vigour, and quench that fervency of spirit, without which the best wishes for the public good must evaporate in empty speculation."— BURKE. m l p o t o i look g s b , e y a o r n e d bo t u h n e d, 6 o in ut t l i d m a e ri s es lik o e f th s e elf p -i r n e t s e e r n e t s , t t a o nd ex party s p ea ro n their sentiments boldly and honestly, even at the risk of dis obliging those whose approbation they much esteem. The policy of such a course is the more clear, because truth and justice, being all powerful, will be found in the end to be the most efficient supporters of every cause. In my last letter I stated, as one of the causes continuing the contest between Whig and Tory, and leaving it doubtful how long such contest is to remain undecided—that the Liberals are by no means as expert, unanimous, or energetic, as their opponents in sustain ing themselves, and negativing the false imputations brought against them, which seems to be the greatest difficulty they have to struggle with. The only exception that occurred to m e was quoted from the answer of the Lord Lieutenant to to Mr. Recorder Shaw's speech, on presenting the new City officers. I now recollect, that the Member for Cashel has supplied another, in his succinct and unanswerable refutation of the charges published in the Standard against himself and the two preceding representatives of that Borough, touching certain electioneering gratuities, better understood and more frequently distributed in England than in this country. If the Liberals, in general, were equally on the alert to defend them selves and promulgate their principles and proceedings, as contradistinguished from those of the Tories, through the public press, their cause should advance more prosperously. Mr. Creswell, one of the Members for Liverpool, stated, at an entertainment there lately, as an ingredient of the poison that he would instill into the minds of his countrymen against Ireland, that Mr. O'Connell wished to have - Irish Paupers represented in Parliament. In proof of his assertion he alluded to the proposition for increasing the number of our representatives, put forward in Mr. O'Connell's last letter. How any learned gentleman, like Mr. Creswell, could utter such absurdities, and expect them to be listed to by an intel ligent and thinking audience, is very strange, when the most superficial knowledge of the statistics of Ireland would sug. gest an immediate contradiction. The Times itself, in com menting on that object of the new agitation—the increase of Irish re presentatives—admitted, that if all Ireland, including the pauperised parts, were to be represented, according to its population, e qually with the rest of the United Kingdom, she ought to have 219 - Members, that is, more than double her present number. Now, O'Connell does not require that num ber ; ho makes allowance for the destitute condition of many le, and only asks for 150 representatives for Ire of the peop land. This number, admitting two millions of our people to be totally destitute of an thing that ought to be represented • in the Legislature, would be considerably less then th e propor tion of Members representing any six millions, paupers in cluded, of the population of the other parts of the empire. And if O'Connell confined himself to the proposal, without demanding the disfranchisement of any part of England, it is one so grounded on common sense and common justice that it ought to become law at no very distant period; and you rea ders that, whatever may become may assure your of Repeal and other grounds of agitation, this will not be lost sight of. But I notice Mr. Creswell's speech merely to point out—first, the nonsense with which the Tory journals fill their columns; and, second, the remissness of the Liberals, in not adopting of co ntradicting such statements, and the Tory press subservient to the publication of better infor mation for the public, and the medium of communicating some part, a t least, of the really honest principles and vi ews o f an enlightened Government. The Opposition papers have been also ringing the changes, on the fact of the Irish Government having, from time to time, lib e rated some convicts; and they ascribe this to a de sire of obtaining popularity amongst the multitude, at the risk of social order and the public peace. A full answer to this charge has not been, I believe, put forward and extensively circulated. It is chiefly this:—one object of the policy of the the present Government, during the last three years, has been of those factious fights, which were s o the suppression preva lent, and which kept the people in such a savage state, and so accustomed to the slaughter of each other, that they, un d er other excitement, thought little of bloodshed upon any pretext The Judges of Assize and Assistant B • whatever. arristers Executive in this laudable " have been aiding the desig n , by enforcing the punishment of the law for such offences more ()re strictly than they were accustomed to do. The consequence is, that while convictions for murder and atrocious crime is diminished those for assault, battery, and homicides, under such provocations, have increased. Under these circumstances several persons have been imprisoned, against whose character no other charges have ever been made than that of joining in those party feuds, and, " for love," knocking down their neighbours or friends, when drunk. But the Magis trates, gentry, and clergy, of the localities in which such things have happened, knowing that several of these convicts were, in other respects, peaceable and well conducted men, and that their families were suffering • • 'stations during their • Excellency for their liberation—_thinking in ing that the ends of justice were obtained by the Judge's sentence, and a shorter imprisonment than that awarded. In such cases there is always a reference to the Judge or Barrister and the general rule is to abide by their know recommendation. ; 1 some of the Barristers who say, " I have actuall • y pronounced as severe a punishment as I could, in order to put down the system • knowing that in all cases i deservin g a mitigated punishment, ' gated punishment, application would be made to the Executive ; and thus all the objects of severity obtained in the culprits being made withthe and the acquainted causes of it s re l axation. " I have heard it suggested, that ad dresses ought to be presented to Lords peth on this very subject, expressive of the public s ense of the great am e li oration effected in the habits of the people—and contradictory of the Tory misrepresentations. But all the most respectable and sensible community, now that part of the the novelty of an energetic and im I.rtial Government is become familiar P public meetings, or to them—shrink from getting up addresses no a t bsoute ca lled for; and if we except ff eorts of the " Precursors," there is at this moment a nascent a greater apathy to agitation than is consistent with the great desire subsistin g opinion,however, is or further Reform. An g.iining ground very generally, as to other means of predicating a desire for further improvement; y' and at the same time indicating the course to be pursued by a Liberal Government—and it seems deserving of publicit It is simply this : that convivial meetings, for thepurposeY. of devisingmeans for enlarging the legitimate Liberal franchise, objects of e, and promoting other Reform, ought to be got up on a respectable scale in every county and borough throughout the kingdom ; and their pro ceedings and resolutions published in all the newspaper s, in order that t h e readers of the Tory journals may have some means of ,judging of theprinciples and motives of Reform ers. At present t h ey are tauht to P. usle•e of their principles by the false colouring put on them by an hostile and jaundiced press. Whereas if those • • represented as they really principles were arc by trustworthy persons, and placed in their proper light, conviction Trust force itself upon all candid, honourable, and unsophisticated minds. If something be not done in this way to sustain the Whigs in opposition to the Tories, and at the same time to point out to the former their faults, they must, as the natural consequence of their own lapsing into Tory or • corrupt practices, and the general disposition of mankind to change, become in the course of a little time as unpopular as their adversaries. It is right to do this; and also to tell the Whigs that if they wish to continue in office, they must con form to that altered state of things, which they have them ! selves created, or prepare to make room for others who will not scruple to conform to the exigency of the times. They I should be told plainly, that it is necessary to give the people a 1 greater interest and share in the management of public af fairs than they have heretofore enjoyed ; that, in fact, charac ter, ability, and fitness, rather than the accident of being bro ther, cousin, friend, or protege, to some stupid and useless aristocrat, ought to b e th e p ass p or t a nd recommendation to public employment. The people of Ireland are beginning to understand that the Whigs have made very little improvement on the old system in this respect. It has been rumoured here for some da%s that Lord Mor peth is to be called to the Upper House in his own right, with a seat in the Cabinet. The intelligence is hardly well come to many Irishme n , w h o k now h ow to apprec i ate hi s Lordship's efficient co-operation in conducting the affairs of this country, and who calculated on the continued influence of his talents and character in the Lower House on our be half. But it will be consolatory to those who know his Lordship's disinterested devotedness to the welfare of the empire at large, and the sustainment of his party, to reflect, that his promotion in the public service is a guarantee of the permanency of any Government having the benefit of his firm, straightforward, and enlightened counsels. T HEATRES. COVENT-GARDEN. Believing, as we do, that the drama, when properly con ducted, may not only (as Addison wrote a century ago) be made the source of, a noble and intellectual amusement, but the vehicle for conveying the grandest lessons, and the medium of the loftiest impressions, of which human nature is suscep tible, we have ever felt its cause to be a national one ; and con vinced, as we were, that the struggle so nobly commenoed at this theatre last season on behalf of the legitimate drama, was the contest between reason and folly—truth and falsehood—be tween all that is most worthy of our nature, and all that is trifling, and puerile, and childish—we were impelled, no less by a sense of duty than a feeling of pleasure, to bring our humble aid to the right side, by noticing, with the eulogium they richly deserved, those splendid revivals of Shakspeare, which shed such glory on the management of Mr. Macready. And it is with the same impressions that we now renew our sincere, though too inefficient, efforts-in the glorious cause. We last night beheld Shakspeare's Tempest upon the stage at Covent Garden, and perhaps there could not be a finer oppor tunity of marking those distinctive characteristics of the true and of the false drama, which, to a superficial observa tion, might seem in this play to be most overlooked, but which arc in reality most carefully preserved. The Tempest is, we think, the most purely fanciful of Shakspeare's plays. The mighty genius, which, in others of his matchless produc tions depicts, with such wondrous fidelity the thousand thoughts and emotions of our nature, and which, even in its boldest flights elsewhere—even in depicting the fairies of Midsummer Night's Dream, or the mysterious beings of Macbeth —keeps somewhat within the boundaries, if not of human reason, of human fancies and traditions—here appears resolved to wing its poetic fancyings into regions where no mortal ere could fol low, and has discovered shapes before unknown, even to the brightest vision, or the wildest dream. Who but himself could have drawn a Caliban—that most hideous creation of poetry " the freckled whelp, hag-born—not honoured with a human form." Who else would have created that " fine apparition",--the " quaint"—the " delicate"—the " beauteous"—" Ariel ?" that lovely compound of fairy, spi rit, and "water-nymph"—partaking of all, yet, wholly, neither. But the wonderful thing is, that Shakspeare pour trays these eccentric creations of his fancy with such truthful ness—he describes the unnatural so naturally—that we in stinctively feel, as it has been well observed, that, were there monsters like Caliban, and beings like Ariel, they would just so think, and feel, and speak, and act, as he makes them : and yet further (perhaps more wondrous still) he contrives — displaying herein a knowledge of man as profoundly philoso phical as his fancy was boundless—he contrives, by giving to his "tricksy spirit" something of the suft gentleness of wo manly feeling, and to his " abominable monster " a little of the elements of humanity—uncouth and savage though it be—to create a species of link, however remote, between our natures and their own ; enough, at least to call forth our sympathy and interest in their fate. Whose heart does not reel a kindred with the touching idea, so beautifully expressed in these lines, when Ariel, speaking of the foes of Prospero, says to him— " Your charm so strongly works them, That, if you now beheld them, your affection Would become tender. PROPER°. —Dost thou think so, Spirit ? ARIEL—Mine would, Sir, were I human. PROSPERO. —And mine shall. Hest thou, Which art but air, a touch, a feeling, Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, be kindlier moved than thou art ?" LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, OCT. 30.—Wind W. S. W., fine.—Arrived and pro ceeded from the River, the Hope, Ryley, for New Zealand ; Miranda, Dyson, Antigua; Sarah Barry, Evans, and Thomas Laurie, for China ; Rattlesnake, Rayner, for Malta ; Alert, White, for Liverpool. Came down from the River and re main, the Medora, Sergeant, for Cape Coast Castle; Gipsey, Cresswell, for Rio Janiero ; Finlater, Moir, for Constanti nople, and remain with the outward bound. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 30. Wind W. N. W. to S., fine. Arrived the Jean Graham, from Mauritius ; Rosalie, Br un , from Cette, for Rouen, leaky and sails split. Sailed the Sovereign (transport) eastward; her Majesty's cutter Raven from Wool wich. Mem.—Her Majesty's ship /Etna is come into harbour from Spithead. PLYMOUTH, OCT 29.—Wind N. W.—The Ruby, Hann, to St. Kitt's, put back with sails split. The City of Kingston, Wise, to Bahia, has also put back having been struck by a sea. FALMOUTH, OCT. 29. —Wind N. W. to W.—A violent gale list night but moderated about day-light. Arrived the Spey, packet, from the West Indies, sailed from St. Thomas, 2d inst., Arcturus, Oliver, from Honduras. Sailed the Braganza, (steamer) for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 30.—Wind W., moderate.—Arrived the Tvrian, Cunningham, from Paraiba; Britannia, Atcheson, from Quebec ; Susannah, Atkins, from St. Domingo; Helen, Taylor, from Trieste ; Mantura, Wicks, and Atlantic, from Malaga ; Dispatch, from Denia ; Adelaide, Major, from Cadiz ; Emerald, Dempsey, from Bordeaux. STANSATE. CREEK, OCT. 30. —Arrived the Portland,White, from Vostizza. PORTLAND ROADS, OCT. 30. Arrived the Criterion, Wal lace, from Constantinople. BRISTOL, OCT. 29.—Arrived the Emma, de Garis, Zante. CLYDE, OCT. 29.—The Hero, Thom, and Crickston Castle, from Quebec; Pandora, Murdock, from Marseilles; Margaret Connell, Morris, from Calcutta; Corsair, Hender son, and Lisbon, Hill, from Malaga. DUBLIN, Ocr. 28.—Arrived the St. John, Hughes, Cadiz. WATERFORD, OCT. 28.—Arrived the Regulator, Angel, from London. BSIXHAM, OCT. 30.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Lawson, from the Mediterranean. DARTMOUTH, OCT. 3 0.—Arrived the Northam Castle, from Odessa. KINGSTOWN, OCT. 28.—Arrived the St. John's,Pusey, from Leghorn ; Hibernia, Feneran, from Quebec. RAMSGATE, OCT. 30.—Arrived the Grand Turk, Varney, from Antwerp, for New Orleans, with loss of anchor and chains, having been on shore near Broadstairs. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 30. —The Mountaineer, Short, from Hon duras, which was on shore near Crosley Point, yesterday, has been scuttled. MILFORD, OCT. 29.—Yesterday the wind was moderate at S. E., but at ten last night, it changed to W. and blew a!perfect hurricane for five hours. Apprehensions are entertained for the safety of some vessels that sailed for Ireland yesterday. JAMAICA.—The Jessie, Bisson, from Jamaica to Cork, was totally wrecked in Morant Bay on the 18th ult. ; crew saved. ELSINEUR.—The Seine, Charlotte, from Havre to St. Pe tersburgh, was on shore on Folsterbo Reef on the 19th inst. dismasted. The Alexander, Furstoff, from St. Petersburgh, put into Elsineur leaky, &c., bound to Liverpool. CRONSTADT.—The Earl of Dalhousie was fallen in with on the 1 1 th instant, off Hogland, dismasted, water-logged, and abandoned. T' :he Alma, Henderson, bound to Batavia, has put back to Hamburgh with damage and leaky, having been on shore, and must discharge. The Favourite, from Chili, put into Calloa leaky; cargo discharging. The Pursuit, Stewart, from Galway, put into Kilrush leaky, and must discharge, bound to London. The Wanskupen, Hallowav, from Newcastle toLubeck, was wrecked on the 19th inst. off Lanovig ; crew saved. The Wellington, from Calcutta, put into St. Thomas's leaky. And who experiences not somewhat of sympathy, even with Caliban, in his impatience under mockery at his hideousness, and in his final exclamation— What a thrice double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship a dull fool !" after he finds there are others and nobler of human kind, than the degraded man, whom he at first had deified. Above all, who can read, without a feeling of unapproachable sublimity, those majestic lines, which we verily believe Shakspeare, who never wrote without a moral, intended for the moral of this play, and Macready's utterance of which will ring in our cars " while memory holds her seat"— " Our revels now are ended : these our actors As I foretold you were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples—the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve, And like this unsubstantial pageant faded Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." Before we went to Covent Garden last night, we should have deemed it impossible to have represented upon a stage so de lightful a fiction. We lack power of words to tell how plea singly we were astonished. We can only say, however incredible it will doubtless appear to those who like us had not witnessed it, that we beheld Sbakspeare's Tempest, thoroughly and perfectly represented ; all its fantastic creations, all its lovely visions and airy shapes, in actual, in visible embodiment. From the moment that the curtain rose, it seemed as though a second Prospero had waved his magic wand, and at his bidding rose a succession of enchantments so wondrous and so beautiful, that we could not help exclaiming, " This is a most majestic vision, and harmonious, charmingly." The storm—the rag ing billows—the flashing lightning—the rolling thunder—the shipwrecked vessel ; the cell of the magician in the desert island, with its mysterious inmates—the beauteous spirit, that flies quickly through the air to do his high behests-- the awful spectacle that be conjures up to appal his foes— and the lovely " masque," which is presented as the crown ing achievement of his magic art—all passed before us with ♦ivid reality, and the exquisite snatches of melody, so beautifully expressing the unearthly music to which Ariel sings her fairy songs, completed the charm ; it was as though we were dreaming of some wild poetic fable, and the spell was only dissolved by the thunders of enthusiastic cheering with which the vast audience expressed their feelings of uncontrol lable delight. We hold this to be the greatest triumph the cause of the legitimate drama has for some time gained ; and we point to it as an incontrovertible evidence that the arts which minister to the senses are never so well and so successfully employed as when they are appealed to in order to embody the conceptions of a truly poetical imagination. HAYMARKET. Last night a new and original farce, called " But How ever—," from the pens of Messrs. Mayhe w and Baylis, was produced at this theatre, and was most favourably received. The singular title of the piece is a bewildering phrase adopted by a man (not unknown to a peculiar class of legal authorities) who has clandestinely left London in order to avoid his ll cre ditors. This honourable character seeks refuge selves inte be a takensm country town, and, n obody,personating for somebody; but when he is abouttor r a e tlthe curiosity ‘lb of those whom he falls in contact with, by disclosing ? and what he is, he stops short before he come , s , to a climax by repeating the words " But, however—. Such, then, being the solution of the title, the plot is shortly as follows :—Mrs. Juniper (Mrs. F. i Matthews), t h e l and.. lady of an inn in the town , s anxiously expecting the arrival of Squire Cashmere (Mr. Hemming), wh o has been sojourning for some time in India, and has lately been decreed to be the owner of an estate in the neigh_ bourhood—formerly the property of an opulent uncle. Just after the landlady has been snaking arrangements for the recep tion of the Squire a coach stops at the door, and Caleb Chizzler ( Mr. Wrench) makes his entree, and from the peculiarity of his dress, added to his mysterious mode of behaviour, Mrs. Ju niper concludes him to be the long-expceted Squire Cashmere. Caleb Chizzler, as before hinted (having in reality come therein order to avoid his creditors and the bailiffs), takes ad vantage of the mistake, when Mr. Standwell ( Mr. Strick land) and his daughter Julia (Miss Williams) visit the inn, in order to welcome the return of Cashmere, who had formed en early attachment to Julia. Chizzler is considered by them to be the long absent lover of Julia, and is treated with great friendship and cordiality ; but an unexpected change takes place; the real Simon 'Pure arrives at the inn, and from the equivocal nature of his conversation Chizzler imagines him to be the bailiff in pursuit of him, and by dint of a little cunning persuades him to retire to another room, when Chizzler re solves that, as he is mistaken for the Squire. the Bailiff shall mistake the Squire for him. When the bailiff makes his ap pearance, Caleb Chizzler takes him to be the Squire ; but when the former produces a writ against the latter, Chizzler makes him believe that Cashmere is the scoundrel he is in search of, and the Squire is accordingly apprehended ; but Chizzler has another difficulty to encounter : Cashmere proves his identity by producing a series of letters which he had received when abroad from his Julia. This disco very clears up the mystery, and the bailiff seizes the real offender ; but Mr. Standwell, admiring the ingenuity displayed by Chizzler, undertakes to extricate him from his difficulties, and procure him a " snug berth" in the neighbourhood, on condition thal he promises to reform. It will be seen that the subject of the farce is a continuation of mistakes, and laugh a bl e situations, and, aided as it was by the excelen equivoq i ues t , acting of a ll t h e performers, could not fail to be successful. Mr. Wrench rendered th e part of Chizzler very eccentric and The Friendship, Bell, was towed into Bridlington yesterday abandoned, and nearly full of water. The Jupiter, Gall (coal laden) is on shore near Whitby ; crew saved. The Betsey and Nancy, Croley, from Newport to Kinsale, was driven on shore at Angle, but has not received material damage. The Blake, from China, was spoken with off the Cape of Good Hope, by the Rainbow, arrived from the Mauritius, at Helena. The Cassiopea and Edward, bound to Cape of Good Hope, have put back to Calcutta, leaky, The Ann, Niildren, bound to London, has put back to Liver pool with part of her cargo thrown over, having been on fire. The Samuel and Elizabeth, Hoskin, from Newport, was on shore in Hell Bay on the 29th inst. The Eucharist, Jensen, from Gottcnburg to London, struck against the quay at Klippa, filled, and sunk. 'OST-OFFICE LIBERALITY.—Died, on Saturday' nightlast, Marian Adams, aged 74, who for upwards of 4.1- ya'ars was letter-carrier to the Post-office in Ashburton. We are sorry to hear that her salary from the Post-office was only the paltry sum of two shillings weekly, for two deliveries of Iccers and newspapers daily in this town. Her furniture and e:ther effects were sold by public auction on Friday last, when poor Betsy, her far-famed donkey, bridle, side-saddle, and plated spur, were all sold for three shillings and sixpence, to Mr. W. Hamlyn, the worthy sexton of Ashburton Church.— Western Times were On Thursday emplo3..ed he for long bench time ofio hearing Magistrates a case a of t H trespasstb ton and f Hall elony preferred against J. 13. Hayn es , E sq , of Winter , barrister, by A. Rand a ll, waterman, under' the fol lowing circumstances : —Mr. Haynes having a pair of eagles which stood at his entrance gates damaged and broken, and suspecting A. Randall, proceeded to his house at midnight, and without any notice or authority, forced an entrance into his house, and the room where he was in bed with his wife, and, seizing a pair of shoes, was about to take them. away to compare them with certain footmarks near his gates, when he was prevented doing so by Randall taking them out of his hands and turning him out of doors. Mr. Guy, of Lymington, appeared in behalf of the prosecution, and commenced in strong terms upon the defendant's conduct.. After a long and patient investigation, the bench said they con sidered the offence fully proved, and sentenced him to pay a fine ot4l. to the Queen. The charge of stealing the shoes the Magistrates refused to go into.—Hampshire Telegraph. Last night, at half-past seven, as the steamer New castle, from Port Carlisle to Liverpool, came in sight of the Rock Light, one of the passengers called the attention of the wan at the wheel to signal lights from a ship on shore. Pre sently two guns were fixed. Captain Sewell immediately ordered the helm a-starboard, and though a strong current was running, with an ebb tide, he approached the vessel, till in two fathoms water. The greatest confusion prevailed aboard of the ship. No distinct answer was given to Captain. Sewell's inqr iries. The brig appeared to be an East India manAhomeward-bound, and is believed to be the Mountaineer:. She had a pilot on board : but how she was run so close in shore, or why an anchor was not seasonably thrown out when she took the ground, and thereby yawed to seaward, could not be ascertained. At the risk of losing the tide, Captain Sowell lowered a boat and sent a couple of hands to convey a hawser from the brig to tow her off. When hailed, the pilot seemed to think that he was in three fathoms water ; whereas the Newcastle was but in two by the lead, whilst at least eighty yards to seaward of the brig ! After much delay on the part of the crew of the brig, a hawser was lowered and fixed, but the instant the drag was put upon it by the steamer's motion, it unfortunately slippe.l from the stanchions. It is to be hoped th _t she would get clear by this morning's tide. Had the wind got up, with any sea, ship, cargo, and crew must have inevi tably been in imminent danger. As it was, the Newcastle was under the necessity of leaving her, and barely succeeded in getting into the Clarence Dock at a quarter past eigt-: t . Other assistance was instantly despatched to the brig, but with what result we could not learn. —Lancashire (Liverpool) Herald of Monday. FATAL AFFRAY AT KENSINGTON.,--Yesterday alternoon an inquest was held at St. Georp's Hospital on the body of James Sirnmonds, aged 63, who is alleged to have died from the effects of a broken jaw, received in a fight with his brother-in-law, Stephen Jordan, on the 15th inst. Mary Ann Hamilton. of No. 2, Tavern-yard, Jennincr b s's-buildings, Hi oi-street, Kensingt on , d e p ose d t h at about half-past nine, o'clock on the 15th inst. deceased was in his own room at No. 7, Church -court, Kensington. Witness, as well as her brother Stephen John .Jordan and his wife, were present at the time. Believed the deceased's wife was a little in liquor, but no other person was so. They had been there but a few minutes together, when words ensued in consequenfze of de ceased's wife having beaten her little brother, who lived wl,t ll , thesis, that morning. Deceased got up, spat in. his hands, and challenged witness's brother to fight. He subsequently struck Jordan, who said, " As you are an old man d I im . medi strike you unless you strike me again." D"ease returned it. will n not ately made a second blow at Jordan, and tb-, latterfi behind ensued, the door. Jordan then took off his coat, and a geneitseght during which they both fell over a clothes-horse struck door. Deceased lay there, but Jor. !' w were et on the room. Did not sec any de ceased's wife, when witness, by gre a r t u e c g x k o er t w ti l o i p i n l },lows struck deceased speak after he whilst the}' e himy the ground together. nil. not of being hurt. Saw no blood fell, or complain in any w ay o drawn from him, Deceased wa s employed as cowkeeper at Kensington Palace, i d to my sister but. Prescott Howett, house-surgeon to St.. George's Hospital , four months. Mr. d osed to the deceased being brought to that establishment about and 15th inst., with a broken jaw, i, snce which p er i o d w i tness h a d e 'clock on th e n i g h t o f th e p twelve attended him until the time of his death, which took place about three o'clock on the morning of the 2 , _.h. Since death hr had made a postmortem examination, a n d f oun d a t t h e b a ck part of the neck a great deal of inflammation extending down the lorgn.v and windpipe. Around the fractured jaw suppu ration and inflammation existed to a great extent, which Wad, been the cause of death, consequent upon the breaking of' the jaw. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Stephen Jordan." The inquiry occupied upwards of. tlttee hours, I r . amusing, and not only proved that there is no 4311 itager who can tell " falseh oo d s " w i t h greater succ 4 '14 - 11titt` { abilities as a light f a r ceur are not in the sli 4:A*41;0-kit.' .; 7 Lej,: " paired. Mrs. F. Matthews is an exceeding) c itctresh and played on this occasion with great sprightli mination. Miss Williams, Strickland, and He ' m a de - - their characters as effective as possible. Prowkilielitillffi 1/4,k 4 J. and Gabby the boots at the inn (who has literally nothing to do with the plot of the piece), were very well played by Messrs. Hutchings and T. F. Matthews. If is only necessary to add that the piece was given out for repetition without a dis sentient voice. It is decidedly the cleverest little tarce we have seen for a long time. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1838 L ~~" sot ngs of the Re d roi the ion